In my life, I've lived in very different kinds of places - very tiny rooms when I was young. And you do learn to cope with it. The funny thing is, as you begin to inhabit larger places, it's very interesting how quickly you adapt to your space. What seems enormous at first becomes natural after a few weeks.

and now we get to the hard part. the endings, the farewells, and the famous last words. if you don't hear from me often, remember that you're in my thoughts.

You find the book in the process of doing it. That's the adventure of the job.

It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.

All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are.

All through my writing life I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.

After something crystallizes, I can write ferociously and write novels in six months, which in the past would have taken me two years.